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RTX 4070 Super launch day sales are rumored to be a ‘disaster’ – what’s going on with Nvidia’s new GPU? (www.techradar.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do PC gamers feel 12GB of VRAM is simply not enough for the money in 2024?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My Nvidia 1070 with 8gb vram is still playing all of my games. Not everything gets Ultra, nor my monitor isn't 4K. Forever I am the "value buyer". It's hard to put money into something that is marginally better though. I thought 16g would be a no-brainer.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Exactly, people get to caught up in the Digital Foundry-ification of ultra max settings running at a perfect ~120 unlocked frames. Relax my dudes and remember the best games of your life were perfect dark with your friends running at 9 FPS.

1080p is fine, medium settings are fine. If the game is good you won't sweat the details.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

remember the best games of your life were perfect dark with your friends running at 9 FPS.

The frame rate was shat on at the time and with good reason, that was unplayable for me. Best times were Halo 4-16 local multiplayer.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As someone who really doesn't care much for game graphics I feel that a comment I wrote a few months ago also fits here:

I’ve never really cared much about graphics in video games, and a game can still be great with even the simplest of graphics - see the Faith series, for example. Interesting story and still has some good scares despite the 8-bit graphics.

To me many of these games with retro aesthetics (either because they’re actually retro or the dev decided to go with a retro style) don’t really feel dated, but rather nostalgic and charming in their own special way.

And many other people also don’t seem to care much about graphics. Minecraft and Roblox are very popular despite having very simplistic graphics, and every now and then a new gameplay video about some horror game with a retro aesthetic will pop up on my recommended, and so far I’ve never seen anyone complain about the graphics, only compliments about them being interesting, nostalgic and charming.

Also I have a potato PC, and it can’t run these modern 8K FPS games anyway, so having these games with simpler graphics that I can actually run is nice. But maybe that’s just me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

FPS games tend to be better to run at lower settings to be more competitive anyway. You don't want all the visual noise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I kind of feel the same way about TV resolution. I have a 1080p TV and a 720p TV and I'm honestly fine with them. Sure, there's better quality out there, but I can always go to the movies if I want that. And I have the advantages of TVs without any 'smart' bullshit. They can't even connect to the internet.

I'm not saying no one else should buy 8k TVs or whatever, if that's what you want, fine, but there are plenty of people I've talked to who feel the same way as me, so I'm glad they haven't done anything like make us all change to new TVs again like they did when they updated to HD.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I literally have a higher resolution computer monitor than I do TV. My computer monitor costs more than my TV did too!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

30fps is fine too on most games.....

friend of mine makes do with a gtx960@720p and is perfectly fine with it, the fun games run. even new ones.

maybe an upgrade to digital foundry perfect 120fps would be worth it if it werent so damn expensive nowadays outside the us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not to shill for them but Alex makes it a point to run tests and to include optimized settings for non flagship hardware in every review he does. I'm not sure where your digital foundry nomenclatures are coming from.

And no, 30fps is not fine...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

i was referring to the op i was responding to

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You lost me at 1080p. It's a basic quality of life thing. Even 1440p is a HUGE upgrade even for regular computer use not even gaming.

I run 4k but I use/need it more work space at work than gaming.